Bhutan, Land of the Thunder Dragon

Im now in Bhutan. It is amazing. So untouched - so expensive...
The plane was pretty late...

Still I got my first glance of Mt Everest from the airplane, it was really cool, seeing the highest mountain in the world, seeing Lothse and all the other famous +8000m summits,

The highest summit....(mt everst itself is respectfull), and cool, knowing that next week I will go there trekking...
After some hours flight...the plane landed in Paro (Bhutan) guides and drivers were waiting for all tourist. then we went to a local restaurant,

It tastes like indian food...Bhutanese people rather identify themselves with india than china.

then we went to watch archery (a popular sport here). Due to Chinese new year, the stores are mainly closed. But some were open. It is really a big contrast to Nepal, no sellers no aggressive taxi drivers. Everything is calm and peaceful. And so clean, like Sweden, not like Kathmandu.where the rivers are used as trash storage...
After this we went down hill for a while...

The guide and the driver...passing by a country that seem to be like a fairy tail.

They have monasteries around the country, and temples that are painted white. All houses looks more or less the same, they look like white temples... The country is in the Himalayas, so it is mountains all over the country. We continued to the capital Thimphu, the only capital in the world without a traffic light (according to the guide),

instead they have a police officer directing the traffic all the time (can be seen in the little house in the middle of the intersectio), thus they cdont have any clever count downt like Thailand, Turkey and Taiwan. The country is really influenced by 1- the king, 2 - Buddhism (a really small part of the population is christian). Even the flag reflects the monarchy and the Buddhism...(yellow and orange). When some guy from India entered the country a long time ago, he heard the scream of a dragon, so the country is called "the land of the thunder dragon", and a dragon is on the flag.

When arriving to the city we went to the Kings monastery, and we also saw his house (it is super small). The country is really small, so he seem to be a real local, 31 years old working 100 meters from his house.

This is the governments house just beside the biggest monastery and the kings little house.

These monastery often has one administration part and one munch part...
It is really not that many tourists here, we are alone all the time... people are calm and it is such a contrast to other countries nearby...that i guess everyone who comes here gets amazed...

They also have alot of paintings and buddhas in there...they are all related to the religion...(all these buldings are from 1640, (they were built all over the country...) The country was founded in the beginning of 1600...accoring to our guide..

When a person dies.they raise 108 whie flags, it means luck...
They also use 5 different colours on flags sumbolising the 5 elements...it is exotic.


After that we went to the hotel, it felt like in North Korea for a while, since there is barely any other guests here.

Typical bhutanese food was served in the empty hotel...
chicken, pork, noodles etc...

The dessert was special with "silver paper". I hope it wasnt toxic...

I also found a friend to hello kitty, probably already know, but i never seen it before...

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Postat av: Anonym

you look like getting thinner. have a nice trip and be careful as usaul.

2011-02-03 @ 18:42:48

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